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Old and New London
… Blackheath and Charlton CHAPTER XVII. BLACKHEATH, CHARLTON, AND ITS … Montagu Corner, which is at the end of Chesterfield Walk. Down to a comparatively recent date, this mound was … 1659 it passed to Sir William Ducie, afterwards Viscount Downe, and subsequently it was owned successively by the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Blackland BLACKLAND Blackland parish adjoined Calne parish, and Blackland church stands 2 km. south-east of Calne church. … Calstone village. The downland became known as Blackland down, those parts of the open fields became known as … contours; where, in the north-east, it enclosed Blackland down, it followed them. On the east side of the south wing a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… 6 in. (a)li. S.E. (b)lix. N.E.) Blackmore is a parish and village 3 m. E. of Chipping Ongar. The Church is the … village. The walls are of flint, with dressings of clunch and brick; the bell-tower is of timber; the roofs are tiled … between 1895 and 1907, when the N. arcade was taken down and re-erected with the same stones; a wall dividing off …
Survey of London
… Blackwall Yard Development, c.18191991 The Green and Wigram Years, c181943 After 1815 the fortunes of English shipbuilding improved and Blackwall Yard prospered again. Not only did the building … 182 The excavations of the whole of the site were taken down to 12ft below high-water level. A coffer dam was erected …
Survey of London
… in 1987, it brought to an end a tradition of shipbuilding and shiprepairing on this site which had begun over 350 years … cost. a But, more importantly, Blackwall was further down-river than Deptford, with a greater depth of water, so … rails at 'breast' height and was lined from rail height down with deal boards. 35 This was evidently an early example …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the parish of Yately, hundred of Crondall, Odiham and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 15 miles (E. … 1804, when the former, a fine ancient edifice, was taken down. A fortification, supposed to be of Saxon origin, … on the same conveyance, round the Blorange mountain and down its declivities, by means of an inclined plane. A …
A History of the County of Oxford
… presumably one for the autumn sowing, one for the spring, and one for the fallow, which suggests a three-course … Church field ( c. 165 a.) in the north-east, and Down field ( c. 135 a.) in the south-east. 93 Most of the … regular fields. By the mid 18th century the fields were: Down field (107 a.), Burleigh field (215 a., including some …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… BLAENCARON (BLAEN-CARON), a hamlet, in the parish and union of Trgaron, upper division of the hundred of … which, after heavy rains or rapid thaws, the waters rush down in impetuous torrents, exhibiting a scene of grandeur … of six shillings was regularly paid to the poor down to 1822, out of a farm called Cae Hugh, in the parish, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a carucate (containing 60 a. of arable), 2 a. of meadow, and 58 s. 1½ d. rent; 9 in 1348, however, the two divisions … 1572: Wall field, Nether field adjoining Beech brook, and Down field 13 lying south of Nottswood Hill. 14 Pan field was … 15 In 1839 a few acres of uninclosed arable remained in Down field, Stoney Dole field - which lay between the village …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… b SP 64 NW) The modern parish covers about 1050 hectares and contains the land of the medieval settlement of Blakesley … side of the remaining farm traces of a hollow-way extend down the hillside, following the bed of a small stream … second channel leaves the main pond at its W. corner, runs down the hillside and enters a long narrow depression …